Language, Literature and the Learner

Carter, Ronald; Mcrae, John

This book presents the reader with a practical classroom-based guide to how the teaching of language and literature, until recently seen as two distinct subjects within the English curriculum, can be used as mutually supportive resources within the classroom.

General Editor's Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction.1. Look both ways before crossing: developments in the language and literature classroom, Ronald Carter2. Representational language learning: from language awareness to text awareness, John McRae3. Stylistics 'upside down': using stylistic analysis in the teaching of language and literature, Mick Short 4. Designing group work activities: a case study, Alan Durant5. Reconstructing and deconstructing: drama texts in the classroom, Michael McCarthy6. That's for your poetry book!, Alan Maley7. Picking holes: close procedures in prose, Anita Weston8. Learner autonomy and literature teaching, Barbara Sinclair9. Making the subtle difference: literature and non-literature in the classroom, Guy Cook10. 'Interfacing' language and literature: with special reference to the teaching of British cultural studies, Mao Sihui11. 'Viewer, I married him': literature through video, Anthony Jennings12. Common ground; incorporating new literatures in English in language and literature teaching, Malachi Edwin VethamaniBibliographyIndex